Agatha is small, and kind of birdlike, and she carries her purse around and shows you where everything is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maureen's Blog] Reference

Some words are ambiguously hyphenated in the original, for example compare "birdlike" (page 40) with "bird-like" (page 383).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guests Of Hercules] Reference

She went out, following the birdlike Mrs. Scattergood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

Then she recited in her pretty, hissing, birdlike voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A birdlike thing perched there, possibly a variety of harpy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

You know, she sings very birdlike and I sing very aggressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Singer Bettye Lavette, Still Raising Hell] Reference

"I figured as much," Rat said in his chittering birdlike voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

The smiling landlord, the disappointed Patriot, and the birdlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

She tilted her head up at me, birdlike, her spectacles glinting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

"Guess ye air some surprised," said the snappy, birdlike old woman whom.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

Darting up from her chair, birdlike and angular, she put away her work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

Her head tilts, birdlike, as her wide almond eyes take in her new world.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Splice': Your Results May Vary (And Be Scary)] Reference

If she was birdlike, she could peck like a bird, and her bill was sharp.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

Urza was leaner now and his frame had taken on an almost birdlike quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

"Have you?" queried Miss 'Rill, with that little birdlike tilt of her head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

The angels themselves were birdlike; they glistened, their eyes and swords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

Another woman spoke; Semira, with eyes keen and birdlike in a wizened face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

The fragile, birdlike man wears a black fedora, black suit and black gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq Veteran's Body Is Exhumed At Arlington] Reference

She was a lovely little lady goblin with birdlike wings, now fifteen years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isle of View]

Indeed, they could see a large figure in the southern sky that wasn't birdlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cube Route]

With this she stood up birdlike, and pecked affectionately at Ruth's rosy cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

Mary Rose told her joyously, although there was a trace of awe in her birdlike voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference

Chainer found himself propped up between the wall and the messenger's birdlike hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

The doctor, in a dark blue burqa, was a small, harried woman with birdlike movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

Claire found herself being examined by bright, birdlike eyes behind a raised lorgnette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Lines]

He accepted everything that Kenny said with a corroborative, birdlike nod of politeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

His pale eyes wavered uneasily as his bald, freckled head darted about in birdlike motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

Dr. Dorn was a small, dapper, slightly bald specialist with an animated, birdlike intensity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

But the Auto-Tune sound is sort of has its birdlike delirium to it that really appeals to pop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

At 750 revolutions the car was rocking and lurching as if it would soar birdlike into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

The stream lines of the body tapered birdlike to the horizontal rudder twenty feet in the rear.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference

Her vibrant contralto voice, like Adam's, held the birdlike, broken tremulo of a young child's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference

With the soft sigh of circuits going to sleep, fm little vessel settled birdlike to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Matter]

Her bright little, birdlike eyes, that had never yet known spectacles, had seen something up the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

Its distinguishing variation was a somewhat wider bulge in the forward part of its birdlike body.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference

Glories were birdlike creatures, roughly human-shaped but covered with a bright and lovely plumage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

With good luck they might be able to hover birdlike over the peaks, canyons and plateaus for five days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

There was a small scar there, and when my hand ran over it she held her breath and looked at me, birdlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Mystery] Reference